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Hannah Marije Altorf was, until Autumn 2020, Reader in Philosophy. She has written on the philosophical and literary works of Iris Murdoch and on different forms of philosophical dialogue. She is the author of Iris Murdoch and the Art of Imagining (Continuum 2008) and together with Mariëtte Willemsen she translated Iris Murdoch’s The Sovereignty of Good into Dutch (Boom 2003). Currently, she is a student rabbi at Leo Baeck College and writing a book on public philosophy, tentatively called “Thinking in Public.”

Athanasios Dimakis is a postdoctoral researcher at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in the program “Hotels and the Modern Subject: 1890-1940,” funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. Athanasios holds an MA (with Distinction) from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a PhD (with Distinction) from NKUA. His publications include: “‘I’ve seen you at it’: Visual Frenzy and the Panopticon in Iris Murdoch’s The Bell,” The Iris Murdoch Review. Athanasios is the recipient of the 2020 William Godshalk Prize for New Durrell Scholarship awarded by the International Lawrence Durrell Society.

David J. Fine is an assistant professor of English at the University of Dayton. His research focuses on sex, secularization, and ethics in the modern British novel, and he teaches courses in twentieth-century fiction, LGBTQ+ literature, and feminist theory. He has published on issues surrounding religion, queerness, and critical pedagogy.

Margaret Guise taught Theology, specializing in New Testament studies, patristics, and the development of Trinitarian doctrine, at Sarum College, Salisbury, the University of Chichester, and the Portsmouth Pathway Ministerial Formation Programme (delivered under the aegis of Ripon College, Cuddesdon) until she retired in 2020. She has also for a number of years been a Research Associate of the Iris Murdoch Research Centre at the University of Chichester. She now lives in Chichester, West Sussex.

Farisa Khalid is a PhD candidate in English at George Washington University. She specializes in British literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, modern drama, genre studies (science fiction and spy fiction), and postcolonial literature. Her work has appeared in Modern Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, The Journal of Popular Culture, and Animation.

Rebecca Moden recently completed a PhD with a dissertation titled “Writer Meets Painter: Iris Murdoch and Harry Weinberger,” which she is now preparing for publication. Other publications include a chapter for Murdoch on Truth and Love (2018): “Liberation through Art: Form and Transformation in Murdoch’s Fiction.” Moden is Assistant Editor of the Iris Murdoch Review.

Henry Walter Spaulding III, (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary) is Associate Professor of Theology and Associate Campus Pastor at Mount Vernon Nazarene University in Mount Vernon, OH. He is author of The Just and Loving Gaze of God with Us: Paul’s Apocalyptic, Political Theology through Wipf and Stock Press. He is also the author several journal articles in publications such as the Wesleyan Theological Journal, Macrina Magazine, and The Journal of Youth Ministry.

Rossitsa Terzieva-Artemis is Professor of Literature in the Department of Languages and Literature at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus, and works in the fields of modern English and Anglophone literatures, continental philosophy, and cultural studies. She holds an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria; an MPhil in Gender Studies from the Central European University, Hungary; an MPhil and a PhD in the Human Sciences from George Washington University. She is the author of Stories of the Unconscious: Sub-Versions in Freud, Lacan, and Kristeva, as well as the editor of a special issue of SLI on Julia Kristeva, and a volume of essays on Ford Madox Ford’s novel The Good Soldier. At present she is working on the postmodern novel as a genre and the intersections between literature and philosophy.

Fiona Tomkinson is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities at Nagoya University, where she has worked since 2017. She previously worked at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. She holds an MA and PhD in Philosophy from Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, and a BA and MA in English Language and Literature from Oxford University. Her publications include a number of articles on Iris Murdoch, mainly focusing on the theme...